> Windows 10 you can to some extent.

Only compared to Windows 7 or Vista maybe. Definitely no compared to, NT4/Me/2000/XP from back then.

> Sadly the same could not be sad about mainstream Linux environments

I'm still wondering what the Unity/Gnome/KDE devs smoke. From what I've gathered from Gnome users, the only way to make it bearable is by ripping out half its functionality and replacing it with (Gnome-specific) extensions. That can't be the way forward, can it?

(Although non-mainstream Linux desktops are an exception, too: Openbox e.g. didn't change too much over the last five or so years I've been using it, but it's so vastly configurable that my configuration has massively evolved over the years, and I figure it's similar for most of its users.)